Launching Breakthrough Starshot light sail probes to Alpha Centauri requires a lot of new tech, including the actual light sails. How do you make the optimal material to maximize the size with minimising mass? Finding out in this interview. 😍 [Interview+] Same video. No YT ads.https://www.patreon.com/universetoday🟣 Guest: Lucas Norder https://www.tudelft.nl/en/staff/l.norder/📜 Pentagonal photonic crystal mirrors: scalable lightsails with enhanced acceleration via neural topology optimizationhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57749-y📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/iHLm9oHMsyM📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast